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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

The quality or state of being pendent or suspended.

The quality or state of being undecided, or in continuance; suspense;

as, the

pendency

of a suit

Ayliffe.

Noun.

[L.pendens, pendeo, supra.] Suspense; the state of being undecided; as, to wait during the pendency of a suit or petition.

pendency ‎(uncountable)

the state of being pendent; suspension